Nurse_Wretched

I have a coworker who is a drama queen! She loves to pick on the weekend staff and tell us how everything is done better during the weekdays. LOL I walk away and do my job as it should be done. She has just been promoted to a managerial position. I w...

Nurses have to do their job until the point at which they are satisfied and happy with themselves! Management will never be happy because their jobs suck far worse than any of ours. Be thankful you are a shift worker! My boss works 50+ hour weeks, ra...

Wow! Sounds like this job will be yours if you want it! I have profound respect for anyone who can be a cop and still love humanity at the end of the day... I've worked in so many different places and all of them were looking for technical skill as w...

The patients in LTC are being taken advantage of... Facilities repeatedly understaff and try to gloss over it when the families are around. They aren't fooling anyone. They like to try to guilt you into believing that: 1) You are the only one who has...

At work, the weekend staff get the brunt of the abuse, accusations, etc... We are not there during the week to defend ourselves so it is open season on us mon-fri as far as management and just about every other department is concerned. I was nearing ...

Dayum! This weekend sucked! I don't know where to even begin... The entire schedule was an epic trainwreck! LOL I'll explain... Very few of my coworkers want to work weekends so several of them call off ALOT. I only work a few days a week and I am g...

I agree, Bklyn_RN. It's unethical. The for profit hospitals/medical facilities hold the nurses to the highest possible standards while taking the low road themselves... The ironic thing is that any nurse they have deemed as worthy is too good to work...

Nursing homes often smell like barnyards! LOL When I worked in LTC I would put perfumed lotion under my nose at times. Haha. I still remember the 104 year old patient who stood up from her wheelchair during church service and exclaimed loudly (with a...

Yeah. I worked a double on Christmas day 2011 + a double on New Year's Day 2012 + a double on my birthday 2012 after getting snowed in and stuck at work. After working a double on my b-day I got stranded at work and walked in the snow for an hour at ...

Holiday weekend noc staff... Haha. Ya'll really know how to up the ante on that one! LOL

I had a job like yours, JenLPN001... I loved it there! Everyone did everything. One day I made bkfst, lunch, and dinner for 50 people because the cook had gotten into a car accident. I charted, I passed meds, I talked to clients about anything and ev...

It's always the nurse's fault... LOL Polio, the civil wars, Pompeii, Hurricane Katrina, sucky institutional food, rectal prolapse...blame the nurses! Muahahahahahahaha!

Mostly, though, I have worked for non-profits... And it hasn't always been heaven! Trust me on this one! Some of them constantly understaff and blame the nurses for it. I last for 7 months at one facility many years ago. They were supposedly an LTC b...

I worked for a for profit LTC just after graduation... The care was sub-standard at best but I loved my job there! The patients were a unique bunch of folks. We had everything...drug addicts, prostitutes, young disabled folks, elderly patients, sever...

Been there, done that...we do staff parties and all of that crap. Corporate pep rally meetings too. Eeeeeeewwwww. LOL All of that is fine and well but we need to staff correctly because it is a matter of patient care and that is why we are there! It'...

And, yeah...I'd work more just for the heck of it if my job wasn't so taxing and abusive... I worked alot in my 1st, 2nd, and 3rd jobs. I loved my job then and it wasn't an issue. None of these jobs exist anymore. Too bad. I had a boss who I adored a...

I feel ya', amoLucia! I took up for every single shift today! Night shift runs their azzes off because they have to handle two units that are far from each other. Weekday days are busy due to management demands, MD orders, phone calls, etc... Eve shi...

Well, I gave them some food for thought today... As I've said MANY times, it all comes back to staffing! Staff correctly and respect your staff and you won't have to call agency every time there is a call off. Take the low road and your staff will on...

The best nurse I know is male! I acknowledge that he is a nursing superhero! Not only does he give exemplary care but he also holds the staff in high regard. Some folks are great nurses but they suck as coworkers due to their ego/attitude. A truly go...

I am dreading the OB rotation when I go back to nursing school... It was bad enough when I became an LPN! I like to stay out of the litigation zone! I wish that they would give us another option for a clinical rotation because I want absolutely nothi...

I have worked with a few lazy nurses... One was male and he'd been working the same job for 20 years. Woah! The other was a nice lady who just didn't fit well in her new job. Other than that, everyone else I have worked with has busted their butt the...

I love when people pull rank and say that they don't do certain tasks because they think they are above them. It makes me laugh because it shows that they are losers. It takes a real nurse to do whatever it takes to properly care for their patient! I...

We didn't have any training in psych... Too bad! I've worked in psych for many years, though. I volunteered and then worked at a homeless shelter and all of the supportive housing units from 1997-2000 Recently, I worked for a large mental health prov...

I work for a locked mental health facility and I love it!

Staffing cuts with very few pay raises...then they hold one useless meeting after another! LOL 30 minutes here and 45 minutes there. I never show up for any of it. I am helping them save money! Yeah, that's why I never show up to meetings. Haha.